First Core M Laptop Sucks, but Critics Eat Humble Pie Tonight

[patrickjp93]

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192893-the-first-core-m-laptop-paints-a-depressing-mediocre-picture-for-intels-broadwell

 

Long story short, Lenovo rushed to market a crappy 2-in-1, critics the world over fired shots at Intel, and then Intel and independents showed off.

 

http://www.se-eng.com/2014/10/30/intel-broadwell-critics-swallowing-their-tongues-as-chip-review-shows-14-nanometer-die-shrink-met-its-specs/

 

 

Newsflash: Intel doesn't lie to consumers about chip performance and specs. Lenovo just tried to force a 4.5 Watt chip into a 3Watt package.

 

Snarky, lazy, but I'm in a bad mood.

[Flight1sim]

wait wait wait...

 

4.5wat?!?!

HOLY mother of gahd!!

omg

wat?

[XTankSlayerX]

4.5 Watt.

[patrickjp93]

wait wait wait...

 

4.5wat?!?!

HOLY mother of gahd!!

omg

wat?

 

This is not news. the specs on core M have been out for a while. It's like 4.5-4.6 Watts, so they rounded to 5 to be safe in marketing.

[Flight1sim]

This is not news. the specs on core M have been out for a while. It's like 4.5-4.6 Watts, so they rounded to 5 to be safe in marketing.

I had no idea.

I try to ignore new releases like this just so I dont become jelous

[Toddwjp]

that could make one hell of a phone chip, asuumming it turbos to that and doesnt sit there at all times

[MilkyWhite]

#1 Why would anyone care about how "badly" an entry level mobility product performs. It's an entry level devices nough said.
#2 Intel lies, just like every other mega-corporation Intel just packages it better.

[AlexGoesHigh]

that could make one hell of a phone chip, asuumming it turbos to that and doesnt sit there at all times

phones chips are kept under 2 watts, even lower if possible, if this was inside a phone with a 2000mah battery wouldn't last half a day with this, this chip was made for tablets and low to mid end laptops

[Toddwjp]

phones chips are kept under 2 watts, if this was inside a phone a 2000mah battery wouldn't last half a day with this, this chip was made for tablets and low to mid end laptops

i mean something along the lines of a chip that sits below 2 watts almost all the time but can spike a few extra watts to avoid performance drops and things when necessary. i should have been more clear

[AlexGoesHigh]

i mean something along the lines of a chip that sits below 2 watts almost all the time but can spike a few extra watts to avoid performance drops and things when necessary. i should have been more clear

still the battery would die fast, 2 watts is what a chip could eat if its playing a game without throttling, normal usage gets around 1  

[patrickjp93]

phones chips are kept under 2 watts, even lower if possible, if this was inside a phone with a 2000mah battery wouldn't last half a day with this, this chip was made for tablets and low to mid end laptops

^This. Let's see what the broadwell-based Atom chips look like if we want to see 1.5W chips in phones.

[Toddwjp]

still the battery would die fast, 2 watts is what a chip could eat if its playing a game without throttling, normal usage gets around 1

okay then second idea, a phone that can be placed in a dock and opens up on a monitor. and allows for more power to be used

[AlexGoesHigh]

okay then second idea, a phone that can be placed in a dock and opens up on a monitor. and allows for more power to be used

dude, no one is going to put core m on a phone, it eats to much bloody power, for whatever use you put it, what you said here sounds good except for that part that its still a phone, meaning its mobile and has a small battery, at most a variation of this design for low power could get into phones, like the atoms @partickjp93 mentioned

[Toddwjp]

dude, no one is going to put core m on a phone, it eats to much bloody power, for whatever use you put it, what you said here sounds good except for that part that its still a phone, meaning its mobile and has a small battery, at most a variation of this design for low power could get into phones, like the atoms @partickjp93 mentioned

i never expect it to be a realistic product, maybe just a fringe device. but now you have said that im going to go make a core m based phone, and since i said phone and not mobile i can make it a landline ha ha victory.

but hey we an all dream for laptop power in a phone

[JAKEBAB]

okay then second idea, a phone that can be placed in a dock and opens up on a monitor. and allows for more power to be used

Now that would be cool that is the sickest idea be sweet if they did that with a ubuntu phone or windows phone once they give us a full desktop os on the phone.

[Syntaxvgm]

I haven't read much of that review yet, but it seems to bash intel for someone else's bad product. Shameful.

[patrickjp93]

I haven't read much of that review yet, but it seems to bash intel for someone else's bad product. Shameful.

More or less. The author is an AMD zealot too if you look at his history of articles.

 

Still want to dump my Intel stock if AMD picks up its game, but ethics of journalism should always be upheld.

[Victorious Secret]

#1 Why would anyone care about how "badly" an entry level mobility product performs. It's an entry level devices nough said.

#2 Intel lies, just like every other mega-corporation Intel just packages it better.

 

1. Entry level products are what constitute a lot of sales, so yes, people care about how entry level platforms perform because those are the ones that can be cheaply packaged and sold. Just cause its cheap, doesn't mean it has to be cheap. 

 

2. Except Intel didn't lie? They were 100% correct? And Lenovo were the ones who messed up? 

RTFA next time. 

[Tonylu1595]

So.. when will this be on phones?

[patrickjp93]

So.. when will this be on phones?

Maybe with the broadwell-based Atom processors, but I don't think the Haswell Atoms have launched yet either.

[Tonylu1595]

Lol i've used an old atom laptop before, it was slow as heck and took legit 10 minutes to launch anything. But that was a school laptop. I'm sure this one is way better.

[Linusinium]

 Lenovo just tried to force a 4.5 Watt chip into a 3Watt package.

 

 

 

wait wait wait...

 

4.5wat?!?!

HOLY mother of gahd!!

omg

wat?

 

 

 

4.5 Watt.

 

 

 

I just couldn't resist, sorry

[Flight1sim]

 

I just couldn't resist, sorry

I was waiting for this

[vm'N]

Maybe with the broadwell-based Atom processors, but I don't think the Haswell Atoms have launched yet either.

To my knowlegde, Intel wont release a broadwell based atom and haven't released a haswell atom.

[ZacDaMan72]